Media

Meetings Industry Media

• In September 2011, the Virtual Edge Institute published Q&A: Content Marketing and ECTC11, an online interview with Mitchell Beer that explained how EventCamp Twin Cities 2010 used onsite content to build an extended conversation with participants.
• In December 2011, BizBash Media’s Best of 2011 featured Setting Sustainability Standards by Mitchell Beer and Amy Spatrisano, co-founder of the Green Meeting Industry Council, on trends in sustainable meetings.

EventCamp Twin Cities Case Study

In September 2010, EventCamp Twin Cities brought 75 participants in Minneapolis together with face-to-face audiences in Basel and Dallas, plus another 550 virtual participants who attended virtually. Along with ECTC Co-Chairs Samuel J. Smith and Ray Hansen, The Conference Publishers co-authored an EventCamp Twin Cities case study on the factors that made the conference a breakthrough in the design of affordable hybrid meetings.

MeetingsNet Extra

MeetingsNet Extra is an e-newsletter produced by Cambridge, MA-based MeetingsNet, a Penton Media division that produces magazines (including Association Meetings and Corporate Meetings & Incentives), conferences, websites, and e-newsletters for meeting and event professionals. MeetingsNet Extra has published a regular column by Mitchell Beer since mid-2009. Here are some recent examples.

• Three Fatal Flaws the Airlines Can’t Solve, December 2011
• New Green Standards Help Make Sustainability Sustainable, November 2011
• TED’s Monopoly on Cool, October 2011
• The $16 Muffin: An Argument That Meetings Can’t Win, September 2011
• It’s Harder to Hack a Face-to-Face Conversation, September 2011
• Curing the Hiccups at a Hybrid Meeting, August 2011
• The Economy Is in Trouble. Is the Meetings Industry Ready This Time?, August 2011
• Meetings Gamification Goes Beyond Fun and Games, June 2011
• Hockey Tale Reminds Meeting Pros to Keep Their Sticks on the Ice, June 2011
• The Smoke and Mirrors Behind Social Media, June 2011
• Bin Laden’s Death Leads Week of Unsettling News for Meetings, May 2011
• The Smoke and Mirrors Behind Social Media, April 2011
• When Hybrid Meetings Rule the Earth, April 2011
• Brain-Friendly Meetings—Not Just Flavor of the Month, April 2011
• A Global Food Crisis Comes Home, March 2011
• A Peak-Oil Survival Kit for Meetings, February 2011
• More Work Ahead on Economic Impact, February 2011
• EventCamp Must Keep Evolving, February 2011
• A Slight Overshoot on Virtual Events, February 2011
• A “Shush” Heard Around the Room, January 2011
• I Have Seen the Future, January 2011
• Defending the Meetings That Matter, January 2011
• Five Sleeper Issues to Watch in 2011, December 2010
• Is Sustainability a Threat to Meetings?, December 2010 (hint: it’s not)
• Six Lessons from the Flight that Wouldn’t End, December 2010
• Meetings Technology as if Participants Mattered, November 2010
• Can Participants Speak Privately in an Online Meeting?, November 2010
• Respecting What Things Are Worth, October 2010 (with a cameo appearance by TCP Managing Editor Karen Irving)
• In Air Regulation Drama, We’re the Consumers, October 2010
• Four Takeaways from a Hybrid Meeting that Worked, September 2010
• The Vulnerability of the Meetings Industry to Climate Change, September 2010

CSRwire

CSRwire, a leading source of news, reports, and information on corporate social responsibility and sustainability, published these items by Mitchell Beer.

• Climate and Energy: Time for Policy to Get Practical, January 2012
• Will Ontario Dilute Its Green Energy Act?, November 2011
• Everyday Heroes: Steve Jobs in Perspective, October 2011
• The Meetings Industry Confronts its Achilles’ Heel, February 2011
• Sustainable Tourism Needed Bigger Boost from COP 16, December 2010

The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is one of the most popular and visible news and commentary sites in the United States. Of Mitchell Beer’s two items on HuffPost, this one dealt with the attack on meetings and events:

• A Couple of Million Jobs at Stake, March 2010

The Meeting Professional

ONE+, previously The Meeting Professional, is the monthly magazine of Meeting Professionals International. In 2007, TMP ran the following articles by Mitchell Beer:

• Emergency Plans Target Attendee Safety, Business Continuity, April 2007
• Defining Success Against a Deadly Epidemic, a retrospective on the XVI International AIDS Conference, March 2007

Forum

Forum, the monthly magazine of the Association Forum of Chicagoland, published Mitchell Beer’s article on the pros, cons, and best uses of onsite newsletters.

• To News or Not to News, March 2007